16 / 2 / 2025

THE burden against Nineveh. The book of vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. God is jealous, and the LORD avenges; the LORD avenges and is furious. The LORD will take venegeance on His adversaries, and He reserve wrath for his enemies; The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked. The LORD  has His way in the whirlwind and in the strom, and the cloudsare the dust of His feet. He rebukes the sea and make it dry, and dry up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts. The mountains quake before Him, the hills melt, and the earth heaves at His presence, yes, the world and all who dwell in it. Who can stand before His indignation? and who can endure the fierceness of His anger! His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by Him. The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and He knows those who trust in Him. But with an overflowing flood He will make an utter end of its place, and darkness will persue His enemies. What do you conspire against the LORD? He will make an utter end of it. Affliction will not rise up a second time. For while tangled like throns, and while drunken like drunkards, they shall be devour like stubble dried.  From you comes forth one who plots evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor / the man of sin /  one / lord / Your pomp of the king of Babylon. Thus says the LORD: "Though they are safe, and likewise many, yet in this manner they will be cut down when he passes through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more; For now I will break of his yoke from you, and burst your bonds apart." The LORD has given a command concerning you: "Your name shall be perpetuated no longer. Out of the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the molded image. I will dig your grave, for you are vile." Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who bring good tidings, who proclaims peace! O Judah, keep your appointed feasts, perform your vows. for the wicked one shall no longer pass through you; he is utterly cut off. NAHUM 1:1-15 

                                                  THE burden which the prophet Habakkuk saw. O LORD, how long shall I cry, and You will not hear? Even cry out to You, ''Violence!" And You will not save. Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to see trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; there is strife, and contention arises. Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surrond the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds. ''Look among the nations and watch - be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told you. For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, a bitter and hasty nation which marches through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not their. They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and more fierce than evening wolves.Their chargers charge ahead; their cavalry comes from afar; they fly as the eagle that hastens to eat. They all come for violence; their faces are set like the east wind.They gather captives like sand. They scoff at kings, and princes are scorned by them.They deride every stronghold, for they heap up earthen mounds and seize it. Then his mind changes, and he transgress; he commit offense, ascribing this power to his god. Are You not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; O Rock, You have marked them for correction. You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal tracherously, and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a person more righteous than he? Why do You make men like fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler over them? They take up all of them with a hook, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragnet. Therefore they rejoice and are glad. Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their dragnet; because by them their share is sumptuous and their food plentiful. Shall they therefore empty their net, and continue to slay nations without pity? HABAKKUK 1:1-17

                                             Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, Not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one decieve you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed / a wicked counselor / one / lord / the glory of the king of Babylon, the son of perdition. Who opposes and exalt himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is  according to working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,  And with all righteous deception among those who perish, because they did not recieve the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie. That they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. But we bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit  and belief in the truth, To which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethen, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by  word or our epistle. Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, Comfort your  hearts and establish you in every good word and work. 2 THESSALONIANS 2 1-17

                                                             "I was sought by those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. I said, 'Here I am, here I am, 'to a nation that was not called by My name. I have stretched out My hands all day long to a rebellious people, who walk in way that is not good,  according to their own thoughts; A people who provoke Me to anger continually to My face; who sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense to altars of brick; Who sit among the graves, and spend the night in the tombs; who eat swine's flesh, and the broth of abominable things is in their vessels. Who say, 'Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am holier than you! 'These are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all the days. "Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silence, but will repay - even repay into their bosom - Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers togather, "says the LORD, "Who have burned incense on the mountains and blasphemed Me on the hills; therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom." Thus says the LORD: "As the new wine / the man / His Christ / This is the likeness of the glory of the LORD is found in the cluster, and one / the man of sine / a wicked counselor / lord  says, 'Do not destroy it, for a blessing is in it, 'so will I do for My servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all. I will bring forth the descendants from Jacob, and from Judah an heir of My mountains; My elect shall inherit it, and My servant shall dwell there. Sharon shall be fold of flocks, and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down, for My people who have sought Me. "But you are those who farsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who prepre a table for Gad, and who furnish a drink offering for Meni. Therefore I will number you for the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because, when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear, but did evil before My eyes, and chose that in which I do not delight. Therfore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, My servants shall eat, but you shall be hungery; behold, My servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, My sevants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed; Behold, My servant shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and wail for grief of spirit.  You shall leave your name as acurse to My choosen; for the Lord GOD will slay you, and call His servants by another name; So that he who blessed himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; becuase the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from My eyes.   "For behold, I creat new heaven and a new earth; and former shall not be remembered or come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I creat; for behold, I creat Jerusalem as rejoicing, and her people a joy. I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in My people; the voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, nor the voice of crying. "No more shall an infant from there lives but a few days, nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, but the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed. They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for as the days of  a tree, so shall be the days of My people, and My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth children for trouble; for they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them. "It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall freed togather, the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain," says the LORD. ISAIAH 65:1-25

                                      For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling with to the house of Jacob. Then people will take them and bring them to their places, and the house of Israel will possess them for servants and maids in the land of the LORD; they will take them captive whose captives they were, and rule over their oppressors. It shall come to pass in the day the LORD give you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and hard bondage in which you were made to serve,  That you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: "How the oppressor has ceased, the golden city ceased! The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers; He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he who ruled the nation in anger, is persucuted and no one hinders. The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing. Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedar of Lebanon, saying, 'Since you were cut down, no woodsman has come up against us.' "Hell from beneath is excited about you, to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the dead for you, all the chief one of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. They all shall speak and say to you: ' Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us? Your pomp / the glory of king of Babylon / one / lord / the man of sin / a wicked counselor is brought down to Sheol, and the sound of your stringed instruments; the maggot is spread under you, and worm cover you.' Isaiah  14:1-11